telling your children there's a Santa Claus
Request: Is this ever integrous? It’s part of our culture & he is a symbol of love & the spirit of Christmas and could foster their imagination but of course it’s not the truth.
Culture
statement: to be feminine is to be vulnerable
Request: a recurring thought that doesn't feel right… as a result I behave more masculinely and dominantly.
Christmas Day
"a religious and cultural celebration by billions of people around the world" -- wikipedia.
transgender
"Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from the sex that they were assigned at birth" -- wikipedia.
Feng shui
An ancient Chinese traditional practice which claims to use energy forces to harmonize individuals with their surrounding environment -- wikipedia.
4B movement
began on Twitter in 2017... [it] stipulates four "nos": no sex with men, no giving birth, no dating men and no marriage with men. The words for the terms in Korean all begin with the prefix "bi" which means "no" -- newsweek.
"haters gonna hate"
Level of this street wisdom.
vegan, vegetarian diets
Diets are inseparable from an underlying belief system, philosophy or attractor field which has more impact on consciousness than the food itself.
helicopter parenting
extremely close attention to a child's or children's experiences and problems, particularly at educational institutions. Helicopter parents are so named because, like helicopters, they "hover overhead", overseeing every aspect of their child's life constantly -- wikipedia.
tracking apps for teenagers
Request: Some parents require their teenage children to use tracking apps to monitor their activities. While it’s done "for safety", it seems like a surefire way to strain their relationship.
"Check your privilege!"
The woke idea that white skin color renders an unearned or unfair advantage in life while ignoring the eminent and obvious successes of nonwhites in every aspect of popular culture and society.
legalized assisted dying
"British MPs passed a bill that would legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people in England and Wales. After a heated debate, 330 MPs voted in favour of the reform and 275 voted against it" -- The Economist.
pop culture
Calibration of what is both popular and what is widely agreed to be "culture."
owning a car and driving it
Priority request: Amish communities reject owning automobiles, believing that cars can weaken communal ties.
pacifist
Priority request: A pacifist rejects war and believes there are no moral grounds which can justify resorting to war. War, for the pacifist, is always wrong. In a sense the philosophy is based on the idea that the ends do not justify the means. The word pacific denotes conciliatory -- wikipedia.